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Our first item in Hot Links explains what your bank account has probably been feeling.

1. The idea was competition would lower Texans’ health-care costs. What patients got instead were fatter bills and less effective treatments, according to a Dallas Morning News multi-day series called “The Cost of Care” that began Sunday. Some of my colleagues who contributed reporting will be blogging here on their findings this week.

2. Closing arguments are expected to begin later this morning in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial, The News’ Jason Trahan reports. After these end, jurors will deliberate on a verdict for what could be weeks.

3. I didn’t hear NBC give a shout-out last night to the Arlington voters who agreed to subsidize the new Cowboys Stadium. The upshot: NBC did compare it to the pyramids, Parthenon, Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal and Roman Coliseum. We’ll see if it attracts similar numbers of tourists so that Arlington can recoup the tax dollars residents are giving Jerry Jones.

Let’s catch up on a few of the public-interest stories in The Dallas Morning News and around the Web-o-sphere:

1. Have you heard the one about the two judges standing in a courtroom office? The first said he wanted a chat. The second said the first wanted to throw down. Next thing you know, a bunch of investigators and attorneys are called in to sort it out. It’s no joke, Kevin Krause reports.

2. An Austin outpatient clinic improperly charged veterans for treating trauma from sexual assaults they had in the military, The New York Times reports. The Veteran Affairs Department was supposed to provide free care.

3. We haveblogged about state lawmakers trying to strip date-of-birth information on government employees — an important tool for conducting accurate background checks — from the Texas Public Information Act. The concern, they say, is preventing identity theft.